Hello,
Recently, my team has been working with a new PDF template and tinkering around with some new styles and I've ran into somewhat of a hiccup. We kept having the issue of the Table of Contents showing up in the TOC (which we found a bit redundant). So I created a new header style and made the mc-heading-level 0. This fixed the problem of it showing up in the TOC but we still want the Table of Contents to show up as a bookmark in the PDF. Does anyone know of a work-around to this issue? Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
PDF Bookmarks
Re: PDF Bookmarks
I struggled with this for a bit and came to the conclusion that it couldn't be done. I think that for a PDF output, mc-heading-level controls the headings that make it into the TOC and also the headings that become PDF bookmarks. Unless of course someone knows differently?
I agree that it would be good to be able to control the PDF bookmarks and the TOC entries separately. I like a bookmark at the very beginning of the document, and also, like you, for the TOC. Ideally, I'd prefer the TOC not to be an entry in the TOC. I definitely don't want the initial bookmark to be in the TOC. So my workaround is to live with the TOC being the first entry in the TOC, and to create the start of document bookmark manually after the document has been created (you need Acrobat for that though).
I agree that it would be good to be able to control the PDF bookmarks and the TOC entries separately. I like a bookmark at the very beginning of the document, and also, like you, for the TOC. Ideally, I'd prefer the TOC not to be an entry in the TOC. I definitely don't want the initial bookmark to be in the TOC. So my workaround is to live with the TOC being the first entry in the TOC, and to create the start of document bookmark manually after the document has been created (you need Acrobat for that though).
Marjorie
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Re: PDF Bookmarks
What about using Adobe Acrobat to add a bookmark to the file after you generate the PDF using Flare?
Re: PDF Bookmarks
Adding the bookmark afterwards is exactly what I do now.
One problem is that it's one manual thing to do in a process that could otherwise be automated.
Another is that I want the bookmark to be the name of the document. I have been known to mistype the name, especially for some of my documents with long names (a third party requirement, not my choice), and this just looks unprofessional.
One problem is that it's one manual thing to do in a process that could otherwise be automated.
Another is that I want the bookmark to be the name of the document. I have been known to mistype the name, especially for some of my documents with long names (a third party requirement, not my choice), and this just looks unprofessional.
Marjorie
My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dogs already think I am.
My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dogs already think I am.
Re: PDF Bookmarks
I got round this by setting up a separate style as you did for the Contents heading but set mc-heading-level to 9, so it never shows in the TOC but is still added as a bookmark when I create a PDF. I don't think I did anything else, although I set my templates up a few years ago and have only ever tweaked them since.